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Running with Strategy

Personal Branding for Executives

Your record built the company. Your presence should carry it further.

Every serious room you want to enter now checks who you are before it checks what you sell. Investors search the founder. Talent searches the CEO. Press searches the expert. An executive personal brand decides what they find.

Thirty minutes with Chloe. Honest answer either way.

Elena Cardone and associated brands · 500,000 followers

  • +74% social impressions across the ecosystem
  • +110% engagements
  • Increased leads and revenue attributed across the associated brands
  • A voice that stayed recognizably hers at every scale

This studio builds executive brands from the real record — the judgment calls, the results, the convictions you have actually earned — and makes them visible with the same discipline documented across the case studies.

Wondering where your own brand stands? See what the Brand Clarity Session covers. Ninety minutes with Chloe, then your brand plan in writing.

What does this look like at ecosystem scale?

For Elena Cardone and associated brands— an ecosystem already past 500,000 followers — the studio's campaigns produced:

  • +74% social impressions across the ecosystem
  • +110% engagements
  • Increased leads and revenue attributed across the associated brands
  • A voice that stayed recognizably hers at every scale

Growth at an established scale is harder than growth from zero; the audience has seen everything once. What moved the numbers was precision about who Elena is and what she alone can say.

How fast can authority be established in a competitive space?

Christina Fanitzi, Mrs. New York 2025, entered a crowded arena with strong potential and limited visibility. Roughly three months of strategic content direction produced 1 million reach, 8 viral posts, and 1,000+ new followers — authority established, measurably, inside one quarter.

The full method lives on the personal branding agency page, and the philosophy behind it on the approach page.

How much of your time does it take?

A few hours a month. The positioning work happens up front in structured conversation — your history, your convictions, the point of view you have earned. After that, strategy and production run through the studio; you review and approve. Partnerships start at $1,500/month for strategy-led direction and $2,200/month with full content production.

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Why do executives need a personal brand?

Decisions about deals, talent, and partnerships increasingly start with a search for the person, and an executive whose expertise is invisible online cedes that first impression to whatever the algorithm surfaces. A deliberate personal brand puts the real record — judgment, results, point of view — in front of the people already looking.

Can an established public figure still grow their brand?

Yes. For Elena Cardone and associated brands — an ecosystem already past 500,000 followers — Running with Strategy's campaigns produced +74% social impressions and +110% engagements, with increased leads and revenue across the ecosystem.

How much time does executive personal branding require from the executive?

A few hours a month. The positioning work happens up front in structured conversation; after that, strategy, content direction, and production run through the studio, with the executive reviewing and approving rather than creating from scratch.

The room is already searching for you. Decide what it finds.

Thirty minutes with Chloe. Honest answer either way.

$750, credited in full toward the Build.